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Hello Darklings,
 Boy has it been a busy quarter! Phew!  Well, Graduation Portfolio show is just around the corner and also, my updated Demo Reels is hot off the drive and ready for the publics.  Hope everybody is hangin in there through the heat of this highly offensive summer.  Cooler breezes are gonna be here sooner than we think.

For the Fin Fang Foom of it.....

Happy Father's Day.  Have an alien. You.........yes, you.

Property of Marvel Comics...I only just made a pretty of him. 

Environments demo reel

So heres my Environment concept demo reel.  Im still working all of the pieces in it, but figured its a good time for posting for the sake of progress so here it is.  Hope you like the direction Im going with them

aaand heres a breakdown:

Project: Wonderland East Port

Programs used:Photoshop

Concept and layout design by Kira Duffy

Project: Catacombs

Programs used: Photoshop, 3dsMax, Maya

Modeled, painted and composted by Kira Duffy

Project: Quinn's Room

Programs used: 3ds Max, Maya, Photoshop, After Effects

Concept from Arthur Thomas' “The Woulds”. Modeled, textured and animated by Kira Duffy

Zbrush Hands

Beginning my adventures in zbrush.  Heres a hand I did last week.  I miss my viewports.

2D environment 3D revisit

So awhile ago, I did this photoshop painting of a catacombs inspired by a trip to the Natural Bridge Caverns

Heres that cavern from awhile back in with some upgrades.  First, i laid out a few simple formations in 3dsMax  

 

Then it was over to maya to texture and light 

Finally, I rendered all of the formations in their own targa file so i could re-size and position them in the composition in Photoshop

  

A photo filter and some color adjustments later, we have a cold, wet catacombs.  yay ^^

3d character modeling demo reel

A couple of these models should be familiar, as it isnt their first time appearing on this blog, but I figured id upload this anyways since...yeah...demo reel and whatnot.

Fun with nostalgia

So heres an animation that my classmate Pamela Mills and I made.  I really enjoyed getting to work with Pam and she is such a supportive and positive individual that I am sure she is really going to thrive in this industry, if not anything else, because she is such a joy to work with.  I heart her face.  Srsly.

End of year finals

So, its the New Year. Woots.  Heres a render of my Character Modeling final. This is my first attempt at rigging in Max and I have to say....wasnt nearly as hard as I thought it was gonna be...which is awesome...

More finals from last quarter to come, Im in the middle of hardware upgrades so bear with me folks.


In other news, I finally gave DC Universe Online a shot....and its badass...Xocarr RAWR!!!

No, seriously...acrobat transport makes the entire Universe a jungle gym...its comic book immersion on a level of fun I thought Id left behind at the age of 12. I only regret that I dont have a computer capable of running it on max settings. ...soon,tho....soon...

Character Modeling Progress

So here is my final scarecrow model.  I think he came out looking more like Jeffery (referred to as "the blob" here) so maybe in the future, we will see him refined again to look more like the kindhearted and slow minded alien with the arboreal friend.  For now, he is a Scarecrow with dreams of Gladiatordom.  Go on, scarecrow dude...go on....

Back to the character modeling again

 This time I'll try to keep a bit more in the way of process posts in this series of character models.  The first is one of a scarecrow for my character modeling class who will also star in my midterm project for materials and lighting.  I got a feeling this quarter isnt going to feel nearly as relaxing as the last, but Im sort of fine with that, really.  On to the character sketches! I wanted to go with more of a tank-y build since most scarecrows are so spindly-type of creepy.  He will have another variation with a jack-o-lantern for a head, but that is gonna have to be a post for another day.  Im still spending a fair amount of my online time pushing the Occupy Together movement, so soon Ill have something to post for that as well.  Take care, darklings.

Go get 'em boys...

So, I got the end of the quarter blues, but it is made at least a little bit better by the fact that I have a whole plethora (such a good word)  of good stuffs to show for this quarters classes.  Ill post other pieces Ive done over the quarter in the next few days.  Today tho, is all about Rosie the Riveter.  This was an assignment in Digital Paint class and it required the use of a 3-D element incorporated into the piece.  I had a pretty good amount of trouble in the beginning, as I was clunking around in Maya trying to texture my P-51's (modeled in 3dsMax) using the 3D paint tool and while it is kinda unwieldy at first, it eventually makes sense, just as any medium with some quality time put in getting to know it. After that was done, it just took a little lovin in Photoshop to make them a backdrop for her portrait.   So here she is, my hero, patron of the mechanics behind the scenes that make this country work...the one, the only...Rosie.  

Modeling 2

So, everybody is in the full swing of the finals hustle.  This is the weekend we get to forget what sleep is and bust it out....drink plenty of fluids, and remember, kiddies....pizza is a one-handed representation of all the major food groups.  Get your vitamins, eat your pizza.  Heres one final down, posts on the others coming as soon as I'm done losing my mind over the one I got left.  Also, Im thinking of permanently leashing my wacom stylus to my hand....keep losing it down the couch....

Photoshop experiments yay

No, I really diddnt have a plan with this, but came out looking an awful lot like the Queen of Hearts from W.A.R.

Evil bit-ka from which there is no escape....none.  bleghrh.  There you are, interwebs.  This is what happens when you take an avid fingerpainter and hand them tools. 

Geisha Dolls about

This is what I got out of my advanced drawing for animators class.  A charcoal piece done of a vintage geisha doll in about an hour on charcoal paper.  Woo funtimes. 

Ink Stuffs

So, I had a Lorelei bounding around my living room and tried my best to catch her in ink.

 

Aaand later, some abstract inkplay. Lorelei, Eric, and me just goofing off with some inkstuffs.  Lorelei had an accidental but welcome appearance of a scawed widdle octopus

 

Go check out the art she makes on purpose  ^_^  Fahshun is handled by my stylist.  Left to my own devices, Id wear pajamas to class >_<

 Shinshay Originals

Photoshop portrait

UPDATE:  A painting I did in photoshop of a precious lady that the world refers to as Audra

I went in and touched up her ear so that it actually look-a like-a ear and did somethin with the flowery bit in her hair

Moar abstracty goodness

I foundeded my other page of abstract shadows and thought it belonged up here next to its brethren.  yaaaay for big black markers

Down in Fraggle Rock

This is a piece I did for my PS paint class this week.  Inspired by a trip to Natural Bridge Caverns with my partner in crime, Eric.  I think this may be my favorite environment Ive managed to produce up till this point ^_^ Yay wacom

Can you say "Midterms already?"

Yay..I knew ya could.  So, I find myself with a few projects on my hands that are fairly within my comfort zone, so I have little to no reason to muck it up or otherwise not bring something awesome. 
Ill be posting em as soon as theyre what I can bear to call finished.  For now, doodles! You too....you do doodle too